Deborah Lynn Billings, PhD 2931 Blossom Street Columbia, SC 29205 [email protected] 803.622.5396
EDUCATION 1995 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor PhD Department of Sociology Title Identities, Consciousness, and Organizing in Exile: Guatemalan Refugee Women in the Camps of Southern Mexico
1991 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MA Department of Sociology
1987 University of Pittsburgh BA Magna Cum Laude, Anthropology with Honors Certificate, Latin American Studies
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
December 2019- present Project Director Institute for Families in Society (IFS) University of South Carolina
February 2018 – present Senior Advisor Group Care Global (GCG) http://groupcare.global/
December 2017 – present Senior Advisor What Works Association www.whatworksassociation.org
September 2017 – present Independent Consultant Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Greenville Health System (GHS) World Vision Fund for Global Human Rights International Rescue Committee (IRC) Advocates for Youth (AFY) Safe Abortion Access Fund (SAAF of IPPF) UN Trust Fund for Women (UNTF)
July 2015- August 2017 Director Choose Well Initiative
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New Morning Foundation
September 2013 – July 2015 Director South Carolina Contraceptive Access Campaign Choose Well Initiative Advocates for Youth
August 2009 – 2013 Assistant Professor University of South Carolina Arnold School of Public Health Health Promotion, Education and Behavior Women’s and Gender Studies
July 2008-2009 Independent Consultant Ipas John D and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
2007-June 2008 Senior Research Associate Ipas, Chapel Hill, NC
2000-2006 Director Research and Evaluation Ipas Mexico, Mexico City
1998-2000 Deputy Director, Health Systems Research Division Ipas, Chapel Hill, NC
1995-1998 Research Associate Ipas, Chapel Hill, NC
1992-1994 Instructor University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Department of Sociology
1992 Researcher Centro de Investigaciones en Salud de Comitán, Chiapas, Mexico
ADJUNCT AND AFFILIATE STATUS
2013- Current Adjunct Associate Professor University of South Carolina Arnold School of Public Health Department of Health Promotion, Education and Behavior;
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Affiliate Status Department of Health Services Policy and Management Institute for Families in Society
2005- Current Adjunct Associate Professor The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health Department of Maternal and Child Health
2002- 2004 Adjunct Assistant Professor The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health Department of Maternal and Child Health
1998- 2001 Adjunct Assistant Professor The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health Department of Health Behavior and Health Education
RESEARCH AND EVALUATION (GRANTS)
2020-2021 Pregnancy and Birth Inequities in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Voices of Health Care and Social Service Leaders throughout South Carolina; Voices of Women on Medicaid/Emergency Medicaid During COVID-19 Pandemic Funded by South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, through the Institute of Families in Society, University of South Carolina
2020-2024 Group Care for the first 1000 days (GC_1000): If it takes a village to raise a child, group care is the first step. Funded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for Research and Innovation, European Commission
2013- 2017 Choose Well: Increasing contraceptive access and addressing unintended pregnancy in South Carolina Funded by The New Morning Foundation and an anonymous donor
2012-2013 Group Outcomes, Pregnancy and Stress (GROUPS study), Funded by the ASPIRE grant, Funded by USC Office of Research.
2011-2012 Group Outcomes, Pregnancy, and Stress Study (the GROUPS Study). Funded by the Institute for Advancement of Health Care (IAHC). Co-PI with Dr. Amy Picklesimer.
2010-2014 The Puentes (Bridges) Project: Improving Reproductive Health among Latinos in South Carolina. Funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, The New Morning Foundation, Palmetto Health, Lexington Health Systems, The Sisters of Charity
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Foundation of South Carolina, Providence Hospitals, Anonymous Donor. Co-PI with Julie Smithwick Leone.
2010 Women’s perspectives on health services for sexual violence victims/survivors in Guatemala. Funded by UNFPA.
2006-07 Provision of medications for abortion in Morelos (Mexico) pharmacies. Funded by Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA). In collaboration with the National Institute of Public Health, Mexico and CIDHAL (Morelos, Mexico).
2006-08 Evaluation of interventions to introduce human rights content into medical and nursing schools in four Latin American countries. Funded by the Ford Foundation.
2006-07 Assessments of medication abortion use in four Latin American countries. Funded by Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA).
2006-07 Evaluation of health sector interventions for sexual violence survivors in four Latin American countries. Funded by United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).
2005 Finding channels for dissemination of safe abortion information in Latin America. Ipas Mexico, Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH); Planned Parenthood of San Diego; Genes SC; the Center for Health Research of Comitán (CISC). Funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Channel Foundation, and an anonymous donor.
2005 Women´s Medical Abortion Experience in Four Latin American Countries. Ipas Mexico, ESAR (Educación para la Salud Reproductiva), Population Council. Funded by Population Council and Gynuity.
2005 Unwanted Pregnancy and Abortion among Nursing Students in Veracruz, Mexico. Ipas Mexico, University of Veracruz. Funded by the Packard Foundation.
2002-04 Assessing the Sexual and Reproductive Health Needs of Adolescents in Rural Mexico: Participatory Research in Five States. Ipas Mexico, National Center for the Health of Infants and Adolescents (Branch of the Ministry of Health of Mexico). Funded by the Packard Foundation.
2003 Assessment of Health and Legal Services for Survivors of Sexual Violence in Bolivia. Ipas Bolivia, Ministry of Gender and Family (Bolivia). Funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID), and Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA).
2002-04 Knowledge, Attitudes, Practices and Needs Related to the Provision of Comprehensive Health Care Services for Women Survivors of Sexual Violence. Ipas Mexico, Ministry of
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Health for Mexico City. Funded by the MacArthur Foundation, Erik and Edith Bergstrom Foundation, General Service Foundation, Weeden Foundation.
1999-2001 Testing a Model for the Delivery of Emergency Obstetric Care and Family Planning Services in the Bolivian Public Health System. Ipas, Ministry of Health (Bolivia), Population Council. Funded by US Agency for International Development (USAID)/Frontiers.
1997-1998 A Comparison of Three Models of Postabortion Care in Mexico. Ipas, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS), The Population Council. Funded by US Agency for International Development (USAID)/INOPAL.
1995-1998 Training Non-Physician Providers to Improve Postabortion Care in Ghana. Ipas, Ministry of Health (Ghana), Ghana Registered Midwives Association. Funded by US Agency for International Development (USAID)/MotherCare.
1995-1998 Testing Alternative Approaches to Providing Integrated Treatment of Abortion Complications and Family Planning in Kenya. Ipas, Ministry of Health, The Population Council. Funded by US Agency for International Development (USAID).
INDEPENDENT CONSULTANCIES
2019 Safe Abortion Action Fund (SAAF), International Planned Parenthood Federtion (IPPF), Reviewer, Cycle 5, Concept notes. August 2019.
2019 Engenderhealth, Collaborate with Ethiopia team to analyze qualitative data and draft a publishable manuscript.
2019 United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women, Reviewer, Cycle 22 full proposals, July 2019.
2019 United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women, Reviewer, Cycle 22 concept notes. December 2018 and January 2019.
2019 International Rescue Committee (IRC) and Advocates for Youth (AFY), develop a training guide for IRC staff to address reproductive health issues with newly resettled refugees to the US and to link them with local clinics and other resources; contribute to development of a graphic novel series focused on the reproductive health needs of resettled refugees in the US.
2018- 2019 Fund for Global Human Rights, develop a Learning & Assessment Framework to test the Fund’s Theory of Change and document its impact.
2018 World Vison International, Author, manual to guide facilitators of support groups comprised of gender-based violence survivors to carry out a series of 12 sessions with
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women, Caribbean Coast, Nicaragua. Manual de habilidades y herramientas para la vida de mujeres sobrevivientes de violencia intrafamiliar en comunidades en la Costa del Caribe de Nicaragua. To be published in English, Spanish, and Miskito. 2018.
2018 Allen University, Co-facilitator (with Prof. LaVerne Ragster, University of Virgin Islands), Leadership Workshop with 20 students, as part of the Allen University (Columbia, SC) Environmental Justice Institute.
2017 - 2018 Pan American Health Organization, Review of Member State status in compliance with PAHO’s Strategy and Plan of Action on strengthening the health systems to address violence against women.
2017 United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women, Reviewer, Cycle 21 proposals. December 2017 and January 2018.
2016 United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women, Reviewer, Cycle 20 proposals. May and September 2016.
2015 United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women, Reviewer, Cycle 19 proposals. August 2015.
2015 United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women, Trainer for the UN Trust Fund’s evaluation capacity development workshop for 20 grantees from 18th funding cycle. February 2015, Morocco.
2014 United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women, Reviewer, Cycle 18 proposals. July- October 2014.
2014 United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women, Trainer for the UN Trust Fund’s evaluation capacity development workshop for 17 grantees from 17th funding cycle. March 2014, Istanbul, Turkey.
2013— Scaling-up Centering Pregnancy in South Carolina. A Process Evaluation. Funded by the 2015 South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services.
2013 United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women, Reviewer, Cycle 17 proposals. August 2013.
2013 United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women, Trainer for the UN Trust Fund’s evaluation capacity development workshop for 15 grantees from 16th funding cycle. March 2013, New York City, USA.
2012 United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women, Trainer for the UN Trust Fund’s evaluation capacity development workshop for 14 grantees from 15th funding
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cycle. October 2012, Mexico City.
2011 Ipas. Lead researcher: Victims/Survivors of Sexual Violence in Guatemala: Evaluation of Health Care Services. Proposal review, Sonke Gender Justice organization to work in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and South Africa on the involvement of men and boys to address the sexual abuse and exploitation of children Consultant to Oak Foundation, Geneva and East Africa Office
2010 Ciudad Mujer: Prevention of Gender-Based Violence and Services Provided to Women Who Experience Intimate Partner Violence in El Salvador. Consultant to InterAmerican Development Bank.
PAHO/WHO Latin American Regional Workshop on Prevention of Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Violence. Consultant to Alessandra Guedes (PAHO) and Claudia Garcia Moreno (WHO). Mexico City
2009-2010 Latino Families for Safe Dates. Review of intervention materials. In collaboration with Vangie Foshee, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Health Behavior and Health Education. CDC:UNC Injury Prevention Research Center, Grant number: 1R49CE001495-01
2009 Participatory workshops on abortion with community leaders and members, students and civil society organizations in Windhoek, Namibia. Hired by Ipas, January 2009.
2008-2009 Evaluating the effectiveness of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation funding to civil society groups in Mexico to combat maternal mortality: Mexico City, Oaxaca, Guerrero and Chiapas. Conducted in collaboration with Jill Gay. Hired by the John D and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Chicago, August 2008 – June 2009.
2008-2009 Propuesta de diseño de un programa para la reeducación a víctimas y agresores en casos de violencia de pareja para población mexicana. Proyecto Solicitado por el H. Congreso de la Unión a través de la Cámara de Diputados para dar cumplimiento a la Ley General de Acceso de las Mujeres a una Vida Libre de Violencia, 2007; Proposal to design a program for the reeducation of victims and perpetrators in the case of partner violence for the Mexican population. Project requested by the Federal Congress through the House of Representatives to follow-up on the General Law for Women to Live Lives Free from Violence, 2007. Funded by the Federal Congress, Mexico and carried out by the National Institute of Public Health, Morelos, Mexico.
2008-10 The Hispanic Health Research Network: Enhancing Practice-Based Research Capacity. Funded by NIH, Partners in Research Program (RO3). PI for the South Carolina Hispanic/Latino Health Coalition.
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2008-10 Sexual violence in Central America: Services and Advocacy. Funded by UNFPA. In collaboration with IPPF and CIDH.
GRANT FUND MANAGEMENT 2000-2006 Coordinator, Small Grants Program, Ipas Mexico. Funded by the Erik and Edith Bergstrom Foundation. -Provided seed and supportive funding to initiatives aimed at increasing people´s access to sexual and reproductive health services throughout Mexico.
HONORS AND AWARDS 2016 McGovern Lecture, Ball State University, Nutrition and Health Science http://cms.bsu.edu/academics/collegesanddepartments/nutrition-and-health- science/aboutdepartment/newsandevents/mcgovernlecture http://cms.bsu.edu/academics/collegesanddepartments/nutrition-and-health- science/aboutdepartment/newsandevents/mcgovernlecture/mcgovern2016
2013 Nominated: Ada B. Thomas Outstanding Faculty/Staff Advisor Award Nominated: WGST teaching award Nominated: Arnold School of Public Health Faculty Service Award
2011 Institute for Advancement of Health Care (IAHC) Scholar (2011-Current) South Carolina Coalition for Healthy Families, New Morning Foundation, Reproductive Rights Award
2009 - 2016 Tell Them Ambassador (Sexual and Reproductive Health in South Carolina)
PUBLICATIONS (Underlined authors are students that I mentor)
PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS
Submitted
White, A., Mann E., Billings DL. Men’s vasectomy experiences: a systematic review and metasynthesis of 20 years of global research. Qualitative Health Research.
Aluah, C., Robillard, A., Billings, DL., Smallwood S. Courtesy Stigma Experienced by HIV Professionals: Implications for Psychosocial and Professional Well-being. International Social Work.
Published
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Rising SS and Billings D. Peer Review Report For: Model fidelity of group antenatal and postnatal care: a process analysis of the first implementation of this innovative service model by the Preterm Birth Initiative-Rwanda [version 1; peer review: 1 approved]. Gates Open Res 2020, 4:7 (https://doi.org/10.21956/gatesopenres.14239.r28427) https://gatesopenresearch.org/articles/4- 7/v1#referee-response-28427
Cayir, E., Spencer., M, Billings, DL, Messias DM, Robillard, A. The Only Way We’ll Be Successful: Organizational Factors that Influence Psychosocial Well-Being and Self-Care among Advocates Working to Address Gender-Based Violence. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0886260519897340
Van De Griend, K., Billings, DL., Frongillo EA, Hilfinger Messias, DK., Crockett, AH., Covington-Kolb, S. Core Strategies, Social Processes, and Contextual Influences of Early Phases of Implementation and Statewide Scale-up of Group Prenatal Care in South Carolina. Evaluation and Program Planning, 79 (2020), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2019.101760.
Salima Kasymova, Katrina M. Walsemann, James F. Thrasher, Gary Barker & Deborah L. Billings (2019) Increasing men’s involvement in responsible parenthood: national-level policy efforts in Croatia, India, and Mexico, Community, Work & Family, DOI: 10.1080/13668803.2019.1694488
Frongillo EA, Fram MS, Escobar-Alegría JL, Pérez-Garay M, Macauda MM, Billings DL. (2019). Concordance and discordance of the knowledge, understanding, and description of children's experience of food insecurity among Hispanic adults and children. Family and Community Health, 42(4):237-243.
Sundstrom B, DeMaria AL, Ferraea M, Meier S, Billings DL. “The Closer, the Better:” The role of telehealth in increasing contraceptive access among women in rural South Carolina. Maternal and Child Health Journal. https://doi.org/10.1007/S10995-019-02750-3 https://rdcu.be/bHrx6
Beavin, C., Billings DL., Chávez S. (2019.) Activist framing of abortion and use for policy change in Peru, Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 27:1, DOI: 10.1080/26410397.2019.1588012
Lewis, KR., Robillard, A., Billings, DL., White K. (2019) Differential perceptions of a hypothetical sexual assault survivor based on race and ethnicity: Exploring victim responsibility, trauma, and need for social support, Journal of American College Health, DOI: 10.1080/07448481.2018.1472096
Sundstrom B, Billings DL, Smith E, Ferrara M, Albert B, Suellentrop K. Evaluating the Whoops Proof S.C. Campaign: A pair-matched group pretest–posttest quasi-experimental study. Maternal and Child Health Journal. DOI: 10.1007/s10995-018-02729-6, Epub 2019 Feb 1.
Place HM, Billings DL, Valenzuela A. (2019). Women’s post-rape experiences with Guatemalan health services. Health Care for Women International, DOI: 10.1080/07399332.2018.1545230
de Castro F, Rojas-Martínez R, Villalobos Hernández A, Allen-Leigh B, Breverman-Bronstein A, Billings DL, Uribe-Zuñiga P. (2018) Sexual and reproductive health outcomes are positively associated with
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comprehensive sexual education exposure in Mexican high-school students. PLoSONE 13(3): e0193780. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal. pone.0193780.
Place JMS, Allen-Leigh B, Billings DL, Dues KM, Castro F. (2017). Detection and care practices for postpartum depressive symptoms in public-sector obstetric units in Mexico: Qualitative results from a resource-constrained setting. Birth 44(4). DOI: 10.1111/birt.12304
Kasymova, S., & Billings, D.L. (2017, September 18). Meanings of Fatherhood in Urban Tajikistan. Psychology of Men & Masculinity. Advance online publication. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/men0000136.
Crockett, AH, Pickell, LB, Heberlein EC, Billings, DL, Mills, B. (2016). Six- and twelve-month documented removal rates among women electing postpartum inpatient compared to delayed or interval contraceptive implant insertions after Medicaid payment reform. pii: S0010-7824(16)30145-7. doi: 10.1016/j.contraception.2016.07.004.
Castro Fd, Place JM, Allen-Leigh B, Rivera-Rivera L, Billings DL. (2016). Provider report of the existence of detection and care of perinatal depression: quantitative evidence from public obstetric units in Mexico. Salud Publica Mex. 2016 Aug;58(4):468-71.
León-Maldonado L, Wentzell E, Brown B, Allen-Leigh B, Torres-Ibarra L, Salmerón J, et al. (2016) Perceptions and Experiences of Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Infection and Testing among Low-Income Mexican Women. PLoS ONE 11(5): e0153367. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0153367
Best AL, Spencer SM, Friedman DB, Hall IJ, Billings DL. (2016). The Influence of Spiritual Framing on African American Women's Mammography Intentions: A Randomized Trial. J Health Commun. 2016 Jun;21(6):620-8. doi: 10.1080/10810730.2015.1114055. Epub 2016 May 4.
Sundstrom, B, Billings, DL, Zenger, KE. (In Press, 2016). Keep Calm and LARC On: A theory-based long- acting reversible contraception (LARC) access campaign. Journal of Communication in Healthcare. 10.1080/17538068.2016.1143165. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17538068.2016.1143165
Heberlein, EC, Picklesimer, AH, Billings, DL, Covington-Kolb, S, Farber, N, Frongillo, EA. Qualitative comparison of women’s perspectives on the functions and benefits of group and individual prenatal care. Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health; 1526-9523/09 doi:10.1111/jmwh.12379.
Heberlein, E, Picklesimer, AH, Billings, DL, Covingtong-Kolb, S, Farber, N, Frongillo, EA. The comparative effects of group prenatal care on psychosocial outcomes. Archives of Women’s Mental Health; August 2015. DOI: 10.1007/s00737-015-0564-6. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00737-015-0564- 6?email.event.1.SEM.ArticleAuthorContributingOnlineFirst
Place, JM, Billings, DL, Frongillo, E, Blake, C, Mann, J, DeCastro, F. Policy for promotion of women’s mental health : Insight from analysis of policy on postnatal depression in Mexico. Administration and
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Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 2015 42(1). 02/2015; 42(1). DOI: 10.1007/s10488-015-0629-x.
de Castro F, Place JMS, Billings DL, Rivera L, Frongillo EA. Risk profiles associated with postnatal depressive symptoms among Mexican women: the role of socio-demographic and psychosocial factors. Archives of Women's Mental Health, 2015, 18(3):463-471. DOI 10.1007/s00737-014-0472-1. Available at: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00737-014-0472-1
Place, JM, Billings, DL, Blake, C, Frongillo, E Mann, J, DeCastro, F. Conceptualizations of Postpartum Depression by Public-Sector Health Care Providers in Mexico. Qual Health Res, published online 3 October 2014. DOI: 10.1177/1049732314552812. To link to this article: http://qhr.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/10/01/1049732314552812
Abara W, Annang L, Spencer SM, Fairchild AJ, Billings D. Understanding internet sex-seeking behaviour and sexual risk among young men who have sex with men: evidences from a cross-sectional study. Sex Transm Infect. 2014 Dec;90(8):596-601. doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2014-051545. Epub 2014 Jul 25. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25063349.
Deeb-Sossa N, Billings DL. Barriers to abortion facing Mexican immigrants in North Carolina: Choosing folk healers versus standard medical options. Latino Studies. 2014; 12(3):399-423.
Turner-McGrievy GM, Davidson CR, Wingard EE, Billings DL. Low glycemic index vegan or low calorie weight loss diets for women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: A Randomized Controlled Feasibility Study. Nutrition Research. In Press.
Turner-McGrievy GM, Davidson CR, Billings DL. Dietary intake, eating behaviours, and quality of life in women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome who are trying to conceive. Human Fertility.
Best AL, Spencer M, Hall I J, Friedman DB, Billings DL. Developing Spiritually Framed Breast Cancer Screening Messages in Consultation With African American Women. Health communication. 2014;30(3), 290-300.
Hale N, Picklesimer AH, Billings DL, Covington-Kolb S. The impact of Centering Pregnancy group prenatal care on postpartum family planning. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. 2014; 210(1):50.e1-50.e7.
Thrasher J, Sargent J, Vargas R, Braun S, Barrientos-Gutierrez T, Sevigny E, Billings DL, Navarro A, Arillo- Santillán E, Hardin J. Are movies with tobacco, alcohol, drugs, sex, and violence rated for youth?: A comparison of rating systems in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and the United States. Addiction. 2014; 25(2):267-275. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2013.09.004
Reyes HLM, Padilla Zuniga K, Billings DL, Blandon MM. Incorporating human rights into reproductive health care provider education programs in Nicaragua and El Salvador. Rev Panam Salud Publica 2013;34(1):54-9.
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Davidson CR, Billings DL, Friedman, D.B. Understanding Family Planning in San Ignacio, Belize. Journal of Global Health, 2013, 3 (1):25-31. http://www.ghjournal.org/
Deming ME, Krassen Covan E, Swan SC, Billings DL. Exploring Rape Myths, Gendered Norms, Group Processing, and the Social Context of Rape Among College Women: A Qualitative Analysis. Violence Against Women, 2013 April 19:465-485.
McNaughton Reyes HL, Billings DL, Paredes-Gaitan Y, Padilla Zuniga K. An assessment of health sector guidelines and services for treatment of sexual violence in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. Reproductive Health Matters. 2012 Dec 20(40):83-93.
Sneeringer RK, Billings DL, Ganatra B, Baird TL. Roles of pharmacists in expanding access to safe and effective medical abortion in developing countries: A review of the literature. Journal of Public Health Policy. 2012 May;33(2):218-29. doi: 10.1057/jphp.2012.11. Epub 2012 Mar 8.
Soto-Ramírez N, Karmaus W, Zhang H, Liu J, Billings DL, Gangur V, Amrol D, da Costa KA, Davis S, Goetzl L. Fatty acids in breast milk associated with asthma-like symptoms and atopy in infancy: a longitudinal study. J Asthma. 2012 Nov;49(9):926-34. Epub 2012 Sep 19.
Picklesimer AH, Billings DL, Hale N, Blackhurst D, Covington-Kolb S. The effect of CenteringPregnancy group prenatal care on preterm birth in a low-income population. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2012 May;206(5):415.e1-7.
Place, JM, Billings DL. Detecting intimate partner violence and postpartum depression: Neglected issues in pregnancy and women’s health. The Journal of Global Health. 2011;1(2): 27-31. At: http://www.ghjournal.org/jgh-print/fall-2011-issue/intimate-partner-violence/
Deborah L Billings, Dilys Walker, Guadalupe Mainero del Paso, Kathryn Andersen Clark, Ila Deyananda. 2009. Pharmacy worker practices related to misoprostol for abortion in one Mexican state. Contraception (79): 445-451.
Silva, Martha, Deborah L Billings, Sandra G. Garcia, Diana Lara. 2009. Physicians’ agreement with and willingness to provide abortion services in the case of pregnancy from rape in Mexico. Contraception (79) 2: 56-64.
González de León Aguirre, Deyanira, Billings DL, Rubén Ramírez Sánchez. 2008 El aborto y la educacion médica en México. (Abortion and medical education in Mexico). Salud Pública de México. Vol 50 (3), mayo-junio.
Svetlana Vladislavovna Doubova, Verónica Pámanes-González, Deborah L Billings, Laura del Pilar Torres- Arreola. 2007. Violencia de pareja en mujeres embarazadas en la Ciudad de México (Partner Violence against Pregnant Women in Mexico City), Revista de Saúde Pública / Journal of Public Health (Brazil) Rev Saúde Pública; 41(4):582-90.
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Billings DL, Crane B, Benson J, Solo J, Fetters T. 2007 Scaling-up a public health innovation: a comparative study of postabortion care in Bolivia and Mexico. Social Science & Medicine, 64(11): 2210- 2222.
El papel de la sociedad civil en la prevención de la violencia contra la mujer. Schiavon R, Troncoso E, Billings DL. 2007. Salud Pública de México, Vol 49, edición especial. Pp. E337- 340.
Martin Sandra L, Young S, Billings DL, and Bross C. 2007. Healthcare-Based Interventions for Sexual Violence Victims: A Review of the Literature. Trauma, Violence & Abuse: A Review Journal, 8: 3-18.
Gómez Ponce de León R, Billings DL, and Barrionuevo K. 2006. Woman-centered postabortion care in public hospitals in Tucumán, Argentina: Assessing quality of care and its link to human rights. Health and Human Rights, 9(1): 3-29.
Lafaurie, MM, Grossman D, Troncoso E, Billings DL, Chávez S. 2005. Women’s perspectives on medical abortion in Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru: A qualitative study. Reproductive Health Matters, 13(26): 75-83.
Cohen, J, Ortiz O, Llaguno SE, Goodyear L, Billings DL, Martínez I. 2005. Reaching women with instructions on Misoprostol use in a Latin America country. Reproductive Health Matters, 13(26): 84-92.
Miller, S, Billings DL. 2005. Abortion and Post Abortion Care: Technical, Ethical, Legal, and Policy Issues in Developing Countries. Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health; 50:341–343.
Billings DL, Benson J. 2005. Postabortion Care in Latin America: A Summary of a Decade of Operations Research. Health Policy and Planning, 20(3):158-166.
Billings DL. 2004. Misoprostol alone for early medical abortion in a Latin American clinic setting. Reproductive Health Matters,12(24 Supplement):57–64.
Quiróz Mendoza, G, Billings DL, Gasman Zylbermann N. 2003. Aspiración Manual Endouterina (AMEU): Tecnología adecuada para la atención de calidad a mujeres en situación de aborto. Gaceta Médica de México, 139(Suplemento No.1):S65-S73.
Billings DL, Fuentes Velásquez J, Pérez-Cuevas R. 2003. Comparing the Quality of Three Models of Postabortion Care Models in Public Hospitals in Mexico City. International Family Planning Perspectives 29(3):112-120.
Castañeda X, Billings DL, Blanco J. Abortion Beliefs and Practices among Midwives (Parteras) in a Rural Mexican Township. Women & Health, 37(2): 73-87, 2003.
Dickson-Tetteh K and Billings DL. Abortion Care Services Provided by Registered Midwives in South Africa. International Family Planning Perspectives, 28(3):144–150, 2002.
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Miller S, Billings DL, Clifford B. Midwives and Postabortion care: Experiences, opinions and attitudes among participants at the 24th triennial congress of the ICM. Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health 2002:47:247-55.
Billings DL, Moreno C, González de León D, Ramos C, Ramírez R, Villaseñor L, Rivera Diaz M. Constructing Access to Legal Abortion Services in Mexico City. Reproductive Health Matters, 10(19):86- 94, 2002.
Baird TL, Billings DL, Demuyakor B. Community Education Efforts Enhance Postabortion Care in Ghana. American Journal of Public Health, Vol 90(4), April 2000.
Brookman-Amissah E, Taylor JE, Baird TL, Billings DL, Odoi-Agyarko H, Ababio K, Quarcopome F. Decentralizing Postabortion Care in Africa: A Call to Action. African Journal of Reproductive Health, Vol 3(1), May 1999.
Solo J, Billings DL, Aloo-Obunga C, Ominde A, Makumi M. “Creating Linkages between Incomplete Abortion Treatment and Family Planning Services in Kenya.” Studies in Family Planning Vol 30 (1):17-27. (also appears in Postabortion Care: Lessons from Operations Research, editors Dale Huntington and Nancy J. Piet-Pelon, New York: Population Council, 1999)
Miller KE, Billings DL "Playing to Grow: An Integrative Approach to Primary Mental Health Work with Guatemalan Refugee Children." American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 64 (July 1994): 346-56.EDITED
BLOGS Place JM, Billings DL, deCastro F, Ham A. The importance of listening to women. Posted as part of “Mental Health: The Missing Piece in Maternal Health,” a blog series co-hosted by the MHTF, the Mental Health Innovation Network at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Dr. Jane Fisher of Monash University. Women and Health Initiative at the Harvard T.H.Chan School of Public Health 2015.
Place JM, Billings DL. Lo que deberíamos saber sobre la depresión postparto (What we should know about postpartum depression). Blog, Gente Saludable. Salud en América Latina y el Caribe. Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo. 2014
Place JM, Billings DL, Castro F. Postnatal depression: What we should know about it. Maternal Health Task Force Blog. Women and Health Initiative at the Harvard T.H.Chan School of Public Health. 2014
BOOKS Embarazo Adolescente. Morelos, México, Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, 2015. Miembro de coordinación técnica de contenidos. Coordinadores generals: Filipa de Castro, Tonatiuh Barrientos, Mauricio Hernández, Lorena Cruz.
Billings, Deborah L. y Ricardo Vernon, eds. Avances en la atención posaborto en América Latina y el Caribe: Investigando, aplicando y expandiendo. México, D.F., Population Council e Ipas, 2007. Available at www.ipas.org
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Villa Torres L, del Castillo V. E, Billings Miele D (eds). Dialogando para construir: Memorias del Encuentro de Jóvenes y el Sector Salud sobre Derechos Sexuales y Reproductivos. Ipas México/ OPS- OMS/ Secretaría de Salud, México, 2005. Available at www.ipas.org
Uribe Elías R, Billings DL (eds). Violencia sobre la salud de las Mujeres ¿Por qué hoy? Memoria de Reunión Internacional de la Federación Mexicana de Ginecologia y Obstetricia. Femego/ Ipas México, 2003.
ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS (not peer-reviewed)
Gasman N, Villa Torres L, Billings DL, Moreno C. 2006. Violencia sexual en México. Informe Nacional sobre la Violencia y la Salud en México, Mexico: Ministry of Health.
Hord, CE, Benson J, Potts JL and Billings DL. 2006. Unsafe abortions in Africa: an overview and recommendations for action. In Warriner, Ina K. and Iqbal H. Shah, eds. Preventing Unsafe Abortion and its Consequences: Priorities for Research and Action. New York, Guttmacher Institute. Pp. 115-149.
Villa L, Billings D. Género o sexo: la experiencia de Ipas en Mexico. In Prometeo, 39: 57-60, special issue on Sexualidad: otra mirada, 2004, Mexico City, Mexico. www.revistaprometeo.com.mx
Billings DL, Emergency services for Survivors of Sexual Violence, IN: Improving the health sector response to gender-based violence: A resource manual for health care professionals in developing countries, NY: International Planned Parenthood Federation, 2004 http://www.ippfwhr.org/publications/publication_detail_e.asp?PubID=63
González de León D and Billings DL. The Women and Health Learning Package. Module on Unwanted Pregnancy and Unsafe Abortion, The Network Towards Unity for Health, 2004.
Billings DL. Increasing Access to Abortion Services in Mexico. In Sexual Health Exchange, Royal Tropical Institute and Southern Africa AIDS Information Dissemination Service. 2002/2. www.kit.nl/exchange.
Billings DL, Saénz I. Mental Health Promoter Training with Guatemalan Refugee Women in Mexico City and the Camps of Southern Mexico. In World Mental Health Casebook: Social and Mental Health Programs in Low-Income Countries, editors Alex Cohen, Arthur Kleinman and Benedetto Saraceno, New York: Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers, 2002.
Gónzalez de León Aguirre D and Billings DL. Attitudes towards Abortion among Medical Trainees in México City Public Hospitals. In Gender, Development and Health, editor Caroline Sweetman, Oxford: Oxfam Focus on Gender, 2001. (Also published in Gender and Development, July 2001, 9(2): 87-94).
Billings DL. “Organizing in Exile: The Reconstruction of Community in the Guatemalan Refugee Camps of Southern Mexico.” In The Maya Diaspora: Guatemalan Roots, New American Lives, editors James
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Loucky and Marilyn M. Moors, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2000.
Billings DL, Castaneda X, Romero Guerrero X, Blanca Muñoz J, Saldaña Rivera A, Chambers V, Voorduin P. “Traditional Midwives and Postabortion Care Services in Morelos, Mexico.” In Postabortion Care: Lessons from Operations Research, editors Dale Huntington and Nancy J. Piet-Pelon, New York: Population Council, 1999.
Billings DL, Ankrah V, Baird TL, Taylor JE, Ababio K, Ntow S. “Midwives in Ghana Offer Comprehensive Postabortion Care.” In Postabortion Care: Lessons from Operations Research, editors Dale Huntington and Nancy J. Piet-Pelon, New York: Population Council, 1999.
Gómez-Clavelina FJ, Billings DL, Rojo-Padilla JA, Herrera-Moro JA, Olaya-Vargas MA. “Evaluación operacional de una estrategia para mejorar la calidad de los servicios de atención postaborto en el ISSSTE, México.” Archivos en Medicina Familiar, Vol 1(3), julio-septiembre 1999.
King T, Billings DL, Friedman A, Benson J. "Postabortion Care in Latin America: A Summary of Operations Research." In Reproductive Health Operations Research, Population Council/INOPAL III, 1998. (also in Spanish as "Atencion PostAborto en America Latina: Un Resumen de investigacion Operativa.")
Fuentes Velázquez J, Billings DL, Cardona Pérez JA, Otero Flores JB. Una Comparación de Tres Modelos de Atención Postaborto en México. Documentos de Trabajo, No. 14. Mexico: Population Council, 1998.
Billings DL, Baird TL, Ankrah V,Taylor JE, Ababio K, Ntow S. “Training Midwives to Improve Postabortion Care in Ghana,” MotherCare Matters: A Quarterly Newsletter and Literature Review on Maternal and Neonatal Health and Nutrition, Vol. 6(4). John Snow Inc.: Arlington, VA. October 1997—Special Edition for 10th Anniversary Safe Motherhood Conference.
Otsea K, Baird TL, Billings DL, Taylor JE. “Midwives Deliver Postabortion Care Services in Ghana,” Dialogue, Vol 1(1). IPAS: North Carolina. June 1997.
Taylor JE, Baird TL, Billings DL, Ababio K. “Training Midwives in Postabortion Care: International Support for Programs and Policies,” In Proceedings of the First World Congress on Maternal Mortality, Marrakesh, Morocco, March 8-14, 1997. Weinstein D and Chervenak F eds. Bologna: Monduzzi Editore, 1997.
Billings DL. "Sexual and Reproductive Rights: A Woman Centered Agenda for Activism", Against the Current (July/August 1997): 21-24.
Billings DL. "Coups, Counter-Coups and Democracy: The Politics of Guatemala", Against the Current 46, (September/October 1993): 28-32.
Billings DL. "Confronting Torture in Guatemala", Central America Reporter (March-April 1993): 5.
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MANUALS The South Carolina Postpartum LARC Toolkit. A resource for implementing South Carolina’s Medicaid policy on providing long-acting reversible contraceptive (LARC) services in the hospital postpartum setting. Emily Heberlein, Deborah L. Billings, Amy Mattison-Faye, B (Melanie) Giese. Choose Well Initiative and the South Carolina Birth Outcomes Initiative. 2015.
Contributor: Guidelines for the prevention and management of vicarious trauma among researchers of sexual and intimate partner violence. (2015). Sexual Violence Research Initiative. Pretoria: South Africa.
Technical assistance to Híjar M, Valdez Santiago R. Programa de reeducación para víctimas y agresores de violencia de pareja. Manual para responsables de programa. Cuernavaca, México: Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, 2010.
Focus Group Guide for Exploring Abortion-Related Stigma. Deborah L. Billings, Leila Hessini, Kathryn Andersen Clark. Chapel Hill, NC: Ipas. 2009.
!Ver y atender! Guia practica para conocer como funcionan los servicios de salud para mujeres victimas y sobrevivientes de violencia sexual. (Getting it Right! Practical guide for understanding how health services work for women victims and survivors of sexual violence). Erika Troncoso, Deborah L Billings, Olivia Ortiz, Cuautli Suarez. Chapel Hill, NC: Ipas. 2007.
Miller KE, Billings DL. 1993. Jugando Para Crecer: Talleres de Educación Creativa Para Niños (Playing to Grow: Creative Education Workshops for Children) Training video. Developed out of work with Education Promoters in 2 Guatemalan refugee camps in Chiapas, Mexico.
REPORTS Cahue, L., Billings, D., and Meetze, E. 2012 HIV Prevention Needs Assessment of Hispanics/Latinos in South Carolina. Needs Assessment Committee and Hispanic/Latino Work Group Report, SC HIV Planning Council. 2012.
Billings DL, Zenger KE, Brown L, Fulmer SL, Kinsey PE, Lindley L, Wilson RC. 2012 Call to action resource document. South Carolina State Alliance for Adolescent Sexual Health (SAASH). 2012.
Billings DL, Valenzuela A, Place JM. Women victims/survivors of sexual violence and their experiences with health services in Guatemala. (Mujeres víctimas-sobrevivientes de violencia sexual y sus experiencias con los servicios de salud disponibles en Guatemala.) Ipas, 2011. Available in English and Spanish.
Paredes-Gaitán Y, Padilla K, Billings DL. Servicios de salud para víctimas/sobrevivientes de violencia sexual: Calidad de servicios y políticas públicas. Managua, Ipas Centroamérica, UNFPA, 2010.
Paredes-Gaitán Y, Padilla Zúniga K, Billings DL. Servicios de salud para víctimas/sobrevivientes de violencia sexual: Calidad de servicios y políticas públicas, Guatemala. Managua, Ipas Centroamérica, UNFPA, 2010.
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Paredes-Gaitán Y, Padilla Zúniga K, Billings DL. Servicios de salud para víctimas/sobrevivientes de violencia sexual: Calidad de servicios y políticas públicas, Nicaragua. Managua, Ipas Centroamérica, UNFPA, 2010.
Paredes-Gaitán Y, Padilla Zúniga K, Billings DL. Servicios de salud para víctimas/sobrevivientes de violencia sexual: Calidad de servicios y políticas públicas, Honduras. Managua, Ipas Centroamérica, UNFPA, 2010.
Ipas México, Facultades de Enfermería del estado de Veracruz y Chiapas. 2006. Sexo, anticoncepción, embarazo y aborto: Experiencias entre las estudiantes de enfermería en Veracruz y Chiapas (México). Mexico DF: Ipas México.
Talmi D, Schryer R, Billings DL and Gordon R. 2005. The sexual and reproductive health of Latinas in North Carolina: A five county needs assessment. Chapel Hill, NC, Ipas.
Judo S, Brindis C, Rodríguez K, Stern C, Reartes D, del Castillo E, Billings DL. 2004. El involucramiento de los hombres jóvenes en la salud sexual y reproductiva: Hacia una agenda binacional de investigación, acción y políticas públicas. University of California, San Francisco (Center for Reproductive Health Research and Policy), El Colegio de México, Ipas.
Billings DL, Rosas F, Nadine Gasman Zylbermann N. 2004. En Mexico, si se pueden ofrecer servicios de anticoncepcion a adolescentes: Normatividad nacional e internacional, Mexico DF: Ipas Mexico.
Moreno García I, Billings DL, Unger J, Cortés Bonilla M, Gasman Zylbermann N. 2003. Consentimiento Informado y Anticoncepción. México City, México: IMSS and Ipas México.
González de León Aguirre D, Billings DL. 2002. El Aborto en México. México City, México: Ipas México.
González de León Aguirre D, Billings DL, Gasman Zylbermann N, Ramírez Sánchez R. 2002. Incorporación de la Salud Sexual y Reproductiva y del Enfoque de la Atención Integral a la Mujer con Aborto en los Programas de Licenciatura en Medicina. México City, México: Ipas México.
Ipas and IHCAR. 2002. Deciding Women’s Lives are Worth Saving: Expanding the Role of Midlevel Providers in Safe Abortion Care. Issues in Abortion Care 7, Chapel Hill, NC: Ipas and IHCAR.
Dickson-Tetteh K, Billings DL, Mavuya LM, Gabriel M, Rees H, King TDN. 2000. Abortion Care Services Provided by Registered Midwives in South Africa: A Report on the Midwifery Training Programme. Johannesburg, South Africa: Reproductive Health Research Unit (RHRU).
Radhakrishna A, Gringle R, Greenslade FC, Saldaña Rivera A, Moreno Uriza C, Chambers M, and Billings DL. 1999. Identificando la intersección: adolescencia, embarazo no deseado, VIH/SIDA y aborto en condiciones de riesgo. Temas en el Tratamiento del Aborto No. 4. Chapel Hill, Ipas.
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Hord CE, Baird TL, Billings DL. 1999. Advancing the Role of Midlevel Providers in Abortion and Postabortion Care: A Global Review and Key Future Actions. Issues 6. Chapel Hill, NC: Ipas.
Billings DL, Baird TL, Ankrah V, Taylor J, Ababio K. 1999. Training Midwives to Improve Postabortion Care in Ghana: Major Findings and Recommendations from an Operations Research Project. Chapel Hill, NC: Ipas.
Fuentes Velazquez J, Billings DL. 1998. A Comparison of Three Models of Postabortion Care in Mexico. Carrboro, Ipas.
Billings, DL. 1998. Training Midwives to Improve Postabortion Care: A Study Tour in Ghana. The POLICY Project, USAID/REDSO/ESA.
Solo J, Billings DL, Ominde A, Makumi M, Aloo-Obunga C. 1998. Creating Linkages between Incomplete Abortion Treatment and Family Planning Services in Kenya: What Works Best? The Population Council, New York.
Billings DL. Training Non-Physician Providers to Improve Postabortion Care: Baseline Assessment of Postabortion Care Services in Four Districts of Eastern Region, Ghana. January 1997. IPAS, North Carolina.
Solo J, Billings DL, Ominde A, Makumi M. 1997. Creating Linkages between Incomplete Abortion Treatment and Family Planning in Kenya: Baseline Findings of an Operations Research Study. The Population Council, New York.
Billings DL. 1994. Women's Health Care in Exile: Guatemalan Refugee Women in the Camps of Chiapas, Mexico, Casas de Salud de la Mujer. Centro de Capacitación en Ecología y Salud para Campesinos (CCESC), San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico,
Billings DL, Farías P. Resumen del Análisis de la Encuesta de Mamá Maquín (Summary Analysis of Mamá Maquín Survey). Centro de Investigaciones en Salud (CISC), Comitán, Chiapas, Mexico, 1992. Subsequently utilized in De Refugiadas a Retornadas: Organización de Mujeres Refugiadas Guatemaltecas "Mamá Maquín". Memorial de Experiencias Organizativas de las Mujeres Refugiadas en Chiapas (From Refugees to Returnees: The Organization of Guatemalan Refugee Women "Mamá Maquín". Collection of Organizing Experiences of Refugee Women in Chiapas). Organización de Mujeres Refugiadas Guatemaltecas "Mamá Maquín" y Centro de Investigación y Acción para la Mujer (CIAM), Comitán, Chiapas, Mexico, 1994.
Billings DL. 1989. Pinpointing the Return of Postpartum Ovulation in Breastfeeding Mothers in Durango, Mexico. Family Health International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
BOOK REVIEWS Review of José A. Cobas and Jorge Duany. Cubans in Puerto Rico: Ethnic Economy and Cultural Identity. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1997. In International Migration Review, 34(129) (Spring 2000): 286-287.
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Review of Robert Arnove. Education as Contested Terrain: Nicaragua, 1979-1993. Boulder: Westview Press, 1994. In Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews Volume 26(2) (March 1997): 179-180.
Review of Gaby Kuppers, ed. Compañeras: Voices From the Latin American Women's Movement. London: Latin American Bureau, 1994. In Against the Current 55 (March/April 1995): 24-25.
Review of Victor Perera. Unfinished Conquest: The Guatemalan Tragedy. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993 and Jennifer Harbury. Bridge of Courage: Life Stories of the Guatemalan Compañeros and Compañeras. Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 1994. In Against the Current 49 (March/April 1994): 41-43.
DOCUMENTARY FILMS AND PHOTOGRAPHY Producer and Translator Subtitles Las Libres: La Historia Después https://atduskmedia.wixsite.com/las-libres-movie
Accompaniment (focus on medical abortion in Mexico, English and Spanish) English, with subtitles Spanish
Co-Producer Se puede/ se hace: Testimonios visuales sobre aborto Photos: http://sepuedesehace.wordpress.com/
OTHER Billings DL. 1998. "Frontiers Position Paper: Postabortion Care." Requested by the Population Council/ USAID/ Frontiers. One of eight position papers used to define the global agenda items under the Frontiers Operations Research contract and to direct country and regional strategies.
CONFERENCE, WORKSHOP AND SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS (available upon request)
MENTORSHIP (GRADUATE AND UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION) (available upon request)
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
. Speaker’s List, Law Students for Reproductive Justice . Ipas, Ten Facts about Abortion http://www.ipas.org/Publications/The_evidence_speaks_for_itself_Ten_facts_about_ab ortion.aspx . National Institute of Public Health, Mexico. Violence Prevention among Newly Formed Couples in Mexico. . PAC Consortium Technical Guidance on Youth Friendly PAC; http://www.pac- consortium.org/site/DocServer/YF_PAC_technical_guidance_final.pdf?docID=241
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. USAID, World Health Organization, Health Communication Partnership. What Works: A Policy and Program Guide to the Evidence on Postabortion Care. January 2006. . World Health Organization (WHO), Guidelines for Medico-Legal Care for Victims of Sexual Violence. . Human Rights Watch report, The Second Assault, Obstructing Access to Legal Abortion after Rape in Mexico. . Hesperian Foundation, A Book for Midwives . Women’s Health Exchange, Special issue on postabortion care . USAID Global review of research on postabortion care . INMUJERES, Mexico City Government and Ipas Mexico. Diseño de materiales educativos para apoyar los servicios relacionados con el tema de violencia sexual en los INMUJERES del D.F. (Design of educational materials to support services related to the theme of sexual violence provided by INMUJERES, Mexico City) . North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. Development of a Lay Health Advisor Program aimed at newly established Latino communities in the state. Focus areas: evaluation, inclusion of content on sexual and reproductive health and gender-based violence. . Las Libres (independent NGO, Guanajuato State, Mexico). El aborto legal, la violencia sexual y de género: una mirada desde el Estado de Guanajuato (Legal abortion, sexual violence and gender: a view from the State of Guanajuato). . AQUESEX (Asociación Queretana de Educación para la Sexualidad), Milenio Feminista. El aborto legal, la violencia sexual y de género: una mirada desde el Estado de Querétaro (Legal abortion, sexual violence and gender: a view from the State of Querétaro). . National Institute of Public Health (INSP) and the Quintana Roo Ministry of Health. Prevention of gender-based violence and care for women victims of gender-based violence in the state of Quintana Roo. Evaluation of health care provider training activities. . The Population Council. Supervision of Postabortion Care Services in Mexico, Bolivia, and Guatemala. . Ministry of Health, Mexico City, Division of Education and Research. Program of Integrated Care for Women with Incomplete Abortion (PAIPAI). . Video production: Que hablen las sobrevivientes: un video de capacitación para quienes proporcionan atención a mujeres sobrevivientes de la violación (Survivors speak: a training video for care providers to women rape survivors). Funded by Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO). . Technical Consultant, World Health Organization (WHO). Unsafe Abortion: Identification of Needs and Strategies. August 28-29, 2000. . Technical Assistance and Needs Assessment for Sexual and Reproductive Health Services in Emergency Situations: Nicaragua in the Aftermath of Hurricane Mitch. . Nacional Institute of Public Health. Training Empirical Midwives in Postabortion Care. . The Population Council and Instituto de Seguridad y Servicios de los Trabajadores del Estado (ISSSTE). Postabortion Care Services within the ISSSTE System: A Diagnostic Study and Programmatic Intervention to Improve the Quality of Services. . Johns Hopkins University Population Communications Services. Put Yourself in Her Shoes: Family Planning Counseling to Prevent Repeat Abortion. Video and discussion
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guide for trainers.
COMMUNITY SERVICE 2019 Board Member The Agape Table, Columbia, South Carolina
2018- 2019 Hand Middle School, Richland One School District School Improvement Council (SIC), Columbia, South Carolina
2018 Community Advisory Board The Language Buzz, Columbia, South Carolina Chair Refugee Task Force, Carolina Peace Resource Center, Columbia, South Carolina
2017 Refugee Task Force, Carolina Peace Resource Center, Columbia, South Carolina
2013 – 2016 Executive Committee South Carolina Coalition for Health Families, Columbia, South Carolina
2013 Staff in-service, Sistercare- Gender-based violence: Perspectives of Latino (men) immigrants in South Carolina, April 16, 2013. Columbia, South Carolina Instructor, Our Whole Lives (OWL) Sexuality Education, ages 4-6
2012- 2013 Rosewood Elementary School, Richland One School District School Improvement Council (SIC), Columbia, South Carolina
2012-2016 Executive Committee South Carolina State Alliance for Adolescent Sexual Health (SAASH), Columbia, South Carolina
2012-2013 Board Member Sexual Trauma Services of the Midlands (South Carolina)
2010-2013 Board Member Sexual Trauma Services of the Midlands (South Carolina) Enfoque Ixcán, Eye Care in Ixcán, Guatemala Member Women in Philanthropy, South Carolina
2010 Advisory Board member, Perinatal Awareness for Successful Outcomes (PASOs) Program in Richland and Lexington Counties (prenatal care for pregnant Latinas in South Carolina)
2009-2015 Tell Them Ambassador, Columbia, South Carolina
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2009- 2011 Chair South Carolina Hispanic/Latino Health Coalition, Columbia, South Carolina
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
2019 Moderator (panel): Dismantling Structures of Economic Discrimination and Oppression, WREN Annual Summit (April 1), Columbia SC (https://www.scwren.org/wren-annual-summit/) Chair, Scientific Committee, Carolina Women’s Health Research Forum (http://whrf.med.sc.edu/contact.asp) Keynote speaker, Globemed annual meeting, University of South Carolina chapter Keynote speaker, Global Health Forum, Una Fuerza Unificadora, A Cross-Cultural Analysis through the Lens of Prenatal Care (Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina) Journal of Transcultural Nursing Qualitative Health Research American Journal of Public Health Health Care for Women International International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health BMC Women’s Health Centering HealthCare Institute, proposal reviewer Sexual Violence Research Initiative, abstract reviewer ASPIRE II research grants, University of South Carolina, abstract reviewer Editorial Board, BMC Women’s Health, Women’s Public Health Issues section, https://bmcwomenshealth.biomedcentral.com/about/editorial-board
2018 BMC Reproductive Health Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública/Pan American Journal of Public Health American Public Health Association (APHA), Human Rights Forum, abstract reviewer
2017 Journal of Transcultural Nursing Qualitative Health Research
2015 Executive Committee Member, South Carolina Coalition for Healthy Families Co-Chair, South Carolina State Alliance for Adolescent Sexual Health (SAASH) Member, Scientific Committee, Carolina Women’s Health Research Forum Reviewer Gender & Society CRIM, UNAM, Mexico International Perspectives in Sexual and Reproductive Health Studies in Family Planning Qualitative Health Research Violence Against Women Abstract reviewer, Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI) South Carolina Pregnancy-Associated Maternal Mortality Review
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2014 Executive Committee Member, South Carolina Coalition for Healthy Families Member, Scientific Committee, Carolina Women’s Health Research Forum Co-Chair, South Carolina State Alliance for Adolescent Sexual Health (SAASH) Reviewer Maternal and Child Health section, APHA ASPIRE grant proposal review, USC Health Care for Women International Qualitative Health Research Reproductive Health Matters International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health PLOS Medicine International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics Maternal and Child Health
2013 Chair, Carol Jones Carlisle Faculty Award, WGST Co-Chair, South Carolina State Alliance for Adolescent Sexual Health (SAASH) Member, Scientific Committee, Carolina Women’s Health Research Forum Member, Faculty Senate, University of South Carolina Master’s Committee, ASPH, HPEB Graduate Committee, WGST Invited by Joao Paulo Souza, Medical Officer for Maternal and Perinatal Health | UNDP- UNFPA-UNICEF-WHO-World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction (HRP), World Health Organization as one of 350 participants worldwide to define global research priorities in maternal and perinatal health Reviewer: Health Care for Women International BMC Women’s Health Qualitative Health Research International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health Studies in Family Planning PLOS Medicine SVRI Forum 2013: Evidence into action. October 14-17, 2013. Bangkok, Thailand Violence Against Women in Latin America and the Caribbean Maternal and Child Health section, APHA ASPIRE grant proposal review, USC Medical Research Council, UK, proposal review
2012 Member, Faculty Senate, University of South Carolina Master’s Committee, ASPH, HPEB Graduate Committee, WGST Reviewer: Pan American Health Organization Health Care for Women International
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Qualitative Health Research BMC Women’s Health Technical reviewer, Violence Against Women in Latin America and the Caribbean: A comparative analysis of population-based data from 12 countries. Pan American Health Organization Expert reviewer: Virtual Knowledge Centre to End Violence against Women site (http://www.endvawnow.org), UNIFEM Abstract review, APHA
2011 Member, Faculty Senate, University of South Carolina Master’s Committee, ASPH, HPEB Graduate Committee, WGST Reviewer: Abstract reviewer, APHA (Maternal and Child Health, Women’s Caucus) Journal of Health Communication International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health Global Public Health Health Care for Women International Violence Against Women Vanderbilt University Press Oak Foundation Africa regional proposal for men’s involvement in reproductive health Virtual Knowledge Centre to End Violence against Women site (http://www.endvawnow.org), UNIFEM Sexual Violence Research Initiative Global Conference Abstracts
2010 Member, Faculty Senate, University of South Carolina Master’s Committee, ASPH, HPEB Graduate Committee, WGST Reviewer: Abstract reviewer, APHA (Maternal and Child Health, Women’s Caucus) Journal of Health Communication Guttmacher Institute, Monograph on Abortion in Colombia Gendered Perspectives on International Development, Publication Series of the Gender, Development, and Globalization Program, Michigan State University Global Public Health
2009 Guest lecturer: Global Virtual Course on Empowerment, HIV and Violence Against Women; Development Connections and UNIFEM Reviewer: Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Randomized Controlled Trials Committee (proposal review) International Family Planning Perspectives Salud Pública de México Journal of Health Communication Charlotte Ellertson Ibis Postdoctoral Research Program
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Sexual Violence Research Initiative Global Conference Abstracts
2008 Reviewer: Social Science & Medicine International Family Planning Perspectives Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition
2007 Reviewer: Sexual Violence Research Initiative Internal Family Planning Perspectives World Health Organization Bulletin Social Science & Medicine
2006 Coordinating Committee member, Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI) Reviewer: Reproductive Health (http://www.reproductive-health-journal.com) International Family Planning Perspectives Studies in Family Planning The Lancet
2005 Reviewer: Social Science & Medicine Vanderbilt Press African Journal of Reproductive Health
2004 Reviewer: African Journal of Reproductive Health BJOG, An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Social Science & Medicine Reproductive Health Matters Bulletin of the World Health Organization Vanderbilt Press Studies in Family Planning
2003 WHO Temporary Advisor, Publication and Dissemination Workshop for Researchers in Latin America Reviewer: Reproductive Health Matters Social Science & Medicine African Journal of Reproductive Health International Family Planning Perspectives
2002 Reviewer: Women and Health International Family Planning Perspectives
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International Migration Review Vanderbilt Press WHO Protocols for the Medical Management of Persons Who Have Experienced Sexual Violence
2001 Reviewer: International Family Planning Perspectives Social Science & Medicine African Journal of Reproductive Health
2000 Editorial Board, Archivos en Medicina Familiar (UNAM, Mexico) Reviewer: Social Science & Medicine African Journal of Reproductive Health International Family Planning Perspectives International Migration Review Home Based Life-Saving Skills, American College of Nurse Midwives
Language Skills Reading, writing and speaking fluency, Spanish Intermediate level reading; beginner level speaker, Portuguese
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